Top-down and bottom-up control of litter decomposers in streams

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 59, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 2172-2182

  Gonçalves, Ana Lúcia ^a   Chauvet, Eric ^b,c   Bärlocher, Felix ^d   Graça, Manuel A S ^a   Canhoto, Cristina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b Institut National Polytechnique   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d MOUNT ALLISON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Consumption; Diversity; Fungi; Shredders; Species identity

Indexed keywords

FUNGI;

EID: 84908238684     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/fwb.12420     Document Type: Article

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